Serving on the Board since 2018, Ms. Joanne Kearney is President and Managing Partner of Smithcom Limited, a boutique reputation management and communications consulting firm. Joanne’s work at Smithcom focuses on transaction communications, issues and crisis management and reputation-building campaigns in the natural resources and capital markets sectors.

Joanne received a kidney transplant at UHN’s Toronto General Hospital after her husband, Brendan Cahill, donated his kidney though the Canadian Blood Services’ Kidney Paired Donation Program. Joanne and Brendan joined the UHN Transplant Campaign Cabinet in September 2017 and, together with their families, became founding supporters of the Centre for Living Organ Donation at TGH – a world first. Joanne currently serves as Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Foundation Board. She is also Vice Chair of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee, as well as a Board Champion for the Transplant Campaign and the Mental Health Campaign.